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Buckley, Chloe Alexandra Germaine. "Nomadic intertextuality and postmillennial children's Gothic fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/80277/.

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Since the turn of the twenty first century, Gothic has emerged as one of the most popular forms in which to write for children. Although children’s literature critics and educational professionals were once dubious about the value of scary stories for children, postmillennial Gothic has begun to receive critical praise as well as mass market popularity. This thesis explores an emergent critical discourse that champions children’s Gothic alongside a variety of examples of the form. I argue that postmillennial children’s fiction employs metafictional reflexivity and explicit intertextuality, ope

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Farrell, Maureen Anne. "Culture and identity in Scottish children's fiction." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/902/.

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British Children’s Literature has a long and distinguished history. In fact it could be argued that in the late seventeenth and increasingly in the eighteenth century, Britain took the lead in developing a new kind of literature especially designed for children. The Puritans were the first to recognise the potential for material specifically targeted at children as a means of reforming the personal piety of all individuals, including children. As a result, educational, instructional and religious books for children began to appear followed later by books retelling myths, legends and oral tales

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Lake, Wendy M. "Aspects of Ireland in children's fiction : an historical outline and analysis of children's fiction set in Ireland (1850-1986)." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253857.

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Taylor, G. T. "The development of style in children's narrative fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384607.

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Froggatt, Anne. "Northbound : the mythic North and children's fiction, 1840-2000." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417102.

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McKelvey, Bridgette. "Fact or fiction? : photography merging genres in children's picturebooks." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/19232/1/Bridgette_McKelvey_Thesis.pdf.

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This paper explores photography in children’s picturebooks and its ability to extend image-making and reading by creating a hybrid genre that merges real and non-real worlds. In analysing the use of photography in such a hybrid genre, the work of Lauren Child (2006, 2001a, 2001b, 2000), Polly Borland (2006), Shaun Tan (2007, 2000, 1998) and Dave McKean (2004a, 2004b, 1995) is deconstructed. These artists utilise photography in contemporary picturebooks that are fictional. In addition, David Doubilet’s images (1990, 1989, 1984, 1980) are discussed, which fuse underwater photojournalism with art

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McKelvey, Bridgette. "Fact or fiction? : photography merging genres in children's picturebooks." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19232/.

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This paper explores photography in children’s picturebooks and its ability to extend image-making and reading by creating a hybrid genre that merges real and non-real worlds. In analysing the use of photography in such a hybrid genre, the work of Lauren Child (2006, 2001a, 2001b, 2000), Polly Borland (2006), Shaun Tan (2007, 2000, 1998) and Dave McKean (2004a, 2004b, 1995) is deconstructed. These artists utilise photography in contemporary picturebooks that are fictional. In addition, David Doubilet’s images (1990, 1989, 1984, 1980) are discussed, which fuse underwater photojournalism with art

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Campbell, Nick. "Children's Neo-Romanticism : the archaeological imagination in British post-War children's fantasy." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Children’s-Neo-Romanticism(d8dd7f80-d6a7-4e02-a103-c627adc0fad1).html.

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The focus of this study is a trend in British children’s literature concerning the ancientness of British landscape, with what I argue is a Neo-Romantic sensibility. Neo-Romanticism is marked by highly subjective viewpoints on the countryside, and I argue that it illuminates our understanding of post-war children’s literature, particularly in what is often called its Second Golden Age. Through discussion of four generally overlooked authors, each of importance to this formative publishing era, I aim to explore certain aspects of the Second Golden Age children’s literature establishment. I argu

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Stewart, Susan Louise Trites Roberta Seelinger. "Genre, ideology, and children's literature." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3172884.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed November 22, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Roberta Seelinger Trites (chair), Karen Coats, C. Anita Tarr. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-256) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Milne, Stephen. "Fiction, children's voices and the moral imagination : a case study." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10461/.

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The importance of stories in educating the moral imagination of the child provides the context for this thesis, which explores children's responses to the moral dimension of fiction. Studies in narrative psychology, literary theory and children's responses to reading also provide the empirical and theoretical background for this qualitative enquiry that compares a number of developing readers' responses to fiction in a school and classroom context. Focusing on the features that distinguish their responses to questions about moral choice and virtue in a range of stories, the thesis explores a m

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Pavlik, Anthony. "A view from elsewhere : the spatiality of children's fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1891.

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Fantasy other worlds are often seen as alternatives with which to critique the ‘real’ world, or as offering spaces where child protagonists can take advantage of the otherness they encounter in their own process of maturation. However, such readings of fantasy other worlds, rather than celebrating heterogeneity, implicitly see ‘other’ spaces as ‘unreal’ and there either to support the real in some way, as being in some way inferior to the real, or in need of salvation by protagonists from the real world. This thesis proposes a reading of such texts that draws on social theories of constructed

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Karakosta, Kalliopi. "European children's fiction and WW2 : didacticism and the impossible narrative." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437661.

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Bell, Alice R. "Science as pantomime : explorations in contemporary children's non-fiction books." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11844.

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This project explores a case study in children's science culture: Horrible Science, a UK based series aimed at 7-11 year olds. Children, I believe, are one of science communication's most interesting audiences. They are both potential members and potential outsiders of the scientific community, and Horrible Science produces a liminar identity to meet these two markets. I apply a metaphor of pantomime to help describe Horrible Science, partly because of the series' approach to using fiction and its style of audience participation. It is also panto-science because it is presented as a carnivales

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Jones, Justin T. "Unmaking Progress: Individual and Social Teleology in Victorian Children's Fiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67995/.

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This study contrasts four distinct discursive responses to (or even accidental remarks on) the Victorian concept of individual and/or social improvement, or progress, set forth by the preeminent social critics, writers, scientists, and historians of the nineteenth century, such as Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Macaulay Matthew Arnold, Charles Darwin, and Herbert Spencer. This teleological ideal, perhaps the most prevalent ideology of the long nineteenth century, originates with the Protestant Christian ethic during and in the years following the Reformation, whereupon it combines wi

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Wilkinson, Sheena Maria. "Girls' school and college friendships in twentieth-century British fiction." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4779/.

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This study examines in detail a variety of adolescent female friendships in twentieth-century British novels, written for both the 'adult' and 'juvenile' reading public, a distinction which I argue is arbitrary, since the relationship between the two is an exceptionally close one. Scholars discussing adolescence this century have tended to ignore the experience of girls, or to reinforce patriarchal stereotypes by presenting girls in marginal and reactionary roles. Until recently, even feminist discourse on friendship has been inclined to focus on adult relationships, or to examine girls in rel

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Carson, Jo. "Pulling My Leg: Story." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1990. http://amzn.com/0531058174.

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Carson, Jo. "You Hold Me And I'll Hold You." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1992. http://amzn.com/0531058956.

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Carson, Jo. "The Great Shaking: An Account of the Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1994. http://amzn.com/0531068099.

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Hodge, Diana Victoria, and dhodge@utas edu au. "Victorianisms in twentieth century young adult fiction." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2006. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060525.151043.

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Abstract: This thesis investigates the origins of contemporary fictional constructions of childhood by examining the extent to which current literary representations of children and childhood have departed from their Victorian origins. I set out to test my intuition that many contemporary young adult novels perpetuate Victorian ideals and values in their constructions of childhood, despite the overt circumstantial modernity of the childhoods they represent. The question this thesis hopes to answer therefore is, how Victorian is contemporary young adult fiction? To gauge the degree of change

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Hirst, Miriam Laufey. "Fantasy and feminism : an intersectional approach to modern children's fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Bolton, 2018. http://ubir.bolton.ac.uk/1968/.

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This thesis compares modern children’s fantasy literature with older texts, particularly Grimms’ fairy tales. The focus is on tropes from fairy tales and myths that devalue women and femininity. In looking at these tropes, this thesis examines how they are used in modern fiction; whether they are subverted to show a more empowering vision of femininity or simply replicated in a more modern guise. Whereas other approaches in this area have addressed the representation of gender in an isolated fashion, this study adopts an intersectional approach, examining the way that different axes of oppress

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Harvey, Brenda Sue. "Children's use of fiction and nonfiction literature in a kindergarten classroom." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248712420.

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Valentine, Valerie D. "An investigation of authenticity and accuracy in children's realistic fiction picture books set in Appalachia." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1202328969.

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Thacker, Deborah Cogan. "An examination of children's inter-action with fiction, leading to the development of methodologies to elicit and communicate their responses." Thesis, Coventry University, 1996. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/02f45a95-b816-3c19-f111-bcb0ce6fab4b/1.

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This thesis provides an examination and analysis of the social contexts of children's response to fiction in order to contribute to a theoretical perspective of literary response as a continuous process. The absence of a consideration of the way that readers are socially constructed renders any conception of literary response incomplete, and a discussion of textual, psychoanalytic and cultural theories of response reveals a gap which Children's Literature must fill. The marginalisation of Children's Literature within literary discourses silences children as readers by denying the recognition o

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Ebbelind, Eva. "Att befolka en barnlitterär värld : To populate a world in children's fiction." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-13279.

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Sands-O'Connor, Karen. "The imagination and the imagined nation : British children's fantastic fiction after 1945." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313708.

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Chew, Laureen. "Chinese American images in selected children's fiction for kindergarten through sixth grade." Scholarly Commons, 1986. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2131.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate Chinese American images in selected children's fiction to determine whether or not data support the position of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, that the works of fiction studied tend to stereotype Chinese Americans. After reading the selected fifteen works of fiction, a criterion checklist was devised by the investigator to examine the behavior and lifestyle of Chinese Americans depicted in a variety of circumstances. validity of the criterion checklist was established by a panel of experts in the area of Chinese American studies. Inte

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Crossland, R. Bert (Rodney Bert). "A Content Analysis of Children's Historical Fiction Written about World War II." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279151/.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the evolution of children's historical fiction dealing with World War II in order to describe the changes that have occurred over the past 50 years. Two questions were asked in the study: (1) Has the characterization of protagonists portrayed in historical fiction about World War H evolved since 1943? and (2) Have the accounts of the events of World War H portrayed in historical fiction evolved since 1943? Content analysis was used as the method of collecting data. The sample consisted of 86 novels written from 1943 to 1993. Upon completing the read

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com, ricepot@gmail, and Cynthia Mei-Li Chew. ""It's stupid being a girl!" The Tomboy character in Selected Childrens Series Fiction." Murdoch University, 2009. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090430.203438.

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The tomboy is a female character that has featured prominently in many popular works of children's literature. Typically, the tomboy is a prepubescent or teenaged girl who is frustrated by the expectations and limitations placed upon her because she is female. She is reluctant to conform to feminine standards of appearance and behaviour. This thesis examines the representation and evolution of the tomboy character in two distinct categories of children's series fiction, 'books in a series' and 'series books'[1], focusing on narratological elements such as plot, characterisation and series str

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Bainbridge, Judith. "Storybook schools : representations of schools and schooling in British children's fiction 1820-1880." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2015. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/storybook-schools(dd59298f-a634-4e4e-9d3f-7071a3364ee1).html.

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The study is organised around five themes which were central to nineteenth-century educational debate, and which I have chosen for discussion because they are addressed recurrently in both fictional and extra-literary texts. The selected themes relate to the contribution of domestic education to the moral and spiritual formation of the individual child, the characteristics of the school as a community and socialisation within it, health, sickness and physical education, the content of the curriculum, and preparation for adult roles. In the first chapter I establish the literary, educational an

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Ibrahim, Wesam. "Linguistic approaches to crossover fiction : towards an integrated approach to the analysis of text worlds in children's crossover fantasy fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.684376.

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Beere, Diana. "Nurturing ideology: Representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian adolescent fiction." Thesis, Griffith University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366558.

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This study analyses the ways in which motherhood is represented in a corpus of contemporary, critically acclaimed Australian adolescent fiction. The 18 texts in the research corpus were those short-listed by the Children's Book Council of Australia for its annual Book of the Year: Older Readers award in the years 1992 to 1994 inclusive. The publicity, prestige and power attached to these awards means that short-listed books, taken to be 'good' books for children and adolescents, are often used as educational resources in Australian schools, particularly to support teaching and learning activ

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Chew, Cynthia Mei-Li. ""It's stupid being a girl!" : the tomboy character in selected children's series fiction /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Program, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090430.203438.

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Burnes, Duncan. "The Gothic in children's literature : the creation of the adolescent in crossover fiction." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12031/.

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This thesis traces the literary course of gothic narrative elements as they appear within children’s fiction, beginning from the late eighteenth century and concluding at the close of the nineteenth century. The thesis presents evidence and potentialities for children’s appropriation of gothic fiction written for adults, and links them to the contemporaneous development of gothic devices in fiction written for children. These are argued to reflect a single phenomenon: The burgeoning relevance, literary and social, of the adolescent, in whom gothic and children’s fictions find a natural point o

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Chew, Cynthia Mei-Li. "It's stupid being a girl!: the tomboy character in selected children's series fiction." Thesis, Chew, Cynthia Mei-Li (2009) It's stupid being a girl!: the tomboy character in selected children's series fiction. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2009. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/454/.

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The tomboy is a female character that has featured prominently in many popular works of children's literature. Typically, the tomboy is a prepubescent or teenaged girl who is frustrated by the expectations and limitations placed upon her because she is female. She is reluctant to conform to feminine standards of appearance and behaviour. This thesis examines the representation and evolution of the tomboy character in two distinct categories of children's series fiction, 'books in a series' and 'series books'[1], focusing on narratological elements such as plot, characterisation and series

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Chew, Cynthia Mei-Li. "It's stupid being a girl!: the tomboy character in selected children's series fiction." Chew, Cynthia Mei-Li (2009) It's stupid being a girl!: the tomboy character in selected children's series fiction. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2009. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/454/.

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The tomboy is a female character that has featured prominently in many popular works of children's literature. Typically, the tomboy is a prepubescent or teenaged girl who is frustrated by the expectations and limitations placed upon her because she is female. She is reluctant to conform to feminine standards of appearance and behaviour. This thesis examines the representation and evolution of the tomboy character in two distinct categories of children's series fiction, 'books in a series' and 'series books'[1], focusing on narratological elements such as plot, characterisation and series

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Minton, Duygu. "Re-working Novelistic Sentiment: Barbauld, Smith, Edgeworth, and the Politics of Children's Fiction." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/727.

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Despite the recognized importance of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Smith as commentators on 1790s radicalism, pedagogy, and novel conventions, their writings for children and for adults tend to be studied separately. Indeed, despite each writer's familiarity with the others' work, these figures are rarely discussed together. I argue that studying these authors' cross-generic works using a comparative approach reveals the ways in which novels and children's books have informed and influenced each other, both in their reciprocal developments and as distinct genres. I furt

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Sambell, Kay. "The use of future fictional time in novels for young readers." Thesis, University of York, 1996. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4269/.

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Valentine, Valerie D. "An Investigation of Authenticity and Accuracy in Children’s Realistic Fiction Picture Books Set in Appalachia." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1202328969.

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Elvery, Laura. "A complex concoction: Thinking through the thingness of lollies in children's literature." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/102282/1/Laura_Elvery_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis examines fiction for children in which lollies appear. Children's books often feature scenes of lolly houses, sweet feasts and sugary temptations. Lollies take on a social and sensory importance often unimagined by readers; more than food in children's literature, they become objects of ritual and memory. This practice-led project examines the endurance of confectionery in children's fiction, and draws on a range of stories to illustrate the vitality of these objects in children's fictional lives. Driven by the creation of an original fiction manuscript, Sugartown, and close textua

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Renner, Jasmine R. "You Must Climb the Tree If You Want to Eat The Fruits." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. http://amzn.com/1500426091.

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"You Must Climb The Tree If You Want to Eat The Fruits" will teach your child or children the invaluable lesson of hard work and persistence. It teaches children about the invaluable lesson of hard work and persistence in order to partake of good things. In this story, Roland sets out to climb an age old tree called "Vine Grove." Vine Grove was full of juicy, tempting and ripe fruits. Day after day, Roland sat under the tree and dreamt about eating the fruits. He thought it was impossible to climb the tree because it was a very big tree. Twice he attempted to climb the tree but he fell down an

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Brodie, Jessica J. "Children in science fiction utopias: feminism's blueprint for change." FIU Digital Commons, 1999. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2425.

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The purpose of this thesis was to examine the treatment and portrayal of children in science fiction utopian literature and determine whether this effectively indicated the writers’ feminist visions for social change. A feminist theoretical perspective and critical interpretation of several of the genre’s canon, Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country, Suzy McKee Chamas’s Motherlines, Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground, Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series, were used as research methodologies. The findings revealed that children communicate feminis

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Limon, Helen. "Creative friction : representations of child-carer relationships in contemporary children's fiction and Om Shanti, Babe, a novel for children." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1592.

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As a way to interrogate and deepen the representation of the two mother-daughter relationships at the centre of my novel, I undertook an investigation of the way understanding of relationships between primary carers and children has been theorised from the mid-twentieth century to the present, paying particular attention to the frequently conflicted period of adolescence. Because my novel is primarily concerned with the relationships between mothers and daughters, feminist theories about mothering were central to my research. The critical component of this submission takes its cue from the way

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Wagenaar, Peter Simon. "The shadowed corners of sunlit ruins: Gothic elements in twentieth century children's adventure fiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002293.

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This thesis examines the way in which children's adventure fiction makes use of Gothic features, how these features have been modified for a younger audience and how these modifications have been influenced by other developments in children's and popular fiction: Chapter One sets out to define the nature of Gothic and isolate those aspects of it relevant to the proposed study. It puts forward a theory to account for the movement of Gothic trends into later children's fiction. Chapter Two examines the use of landscape, setting and atmospheric effects in Gothic and the way in which children's fi

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Sachet, Alison. "Children's and Adults' Prosocial Behavior in Real and Imaginary Social Interactions." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12992.

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In everyday life, there are many situations that elicit emotional reactions to an individual's plight, leading to empathic thoughts and helping behaviors. But what if the observed situation involves fictional characters rather than real life people? The main goal of this dissertation was to investigate the extent that empathic thoughts and helping behaviors characterize children's responses to fictional social interactions, as well as to real ones. Another goal was to develop a new measure of prosocial behavior. In Study 1, 60 undergraduate students (36 female; Mage = 19.87, SDage

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Ibrahim, Wesam Mohamed Abdel-Khalek. "Towards an integrated approach to the analysis of text worlds in children's crossover fantasy fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547986.

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Foster, Ludovic. "Narratives of tomboy identity in fiction and film : exploring a hidden history." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65458/.

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This thesis is an exploration of the tomboy figure across a range of literary and cinematic texts from the nineteenth century to the present day. The tomboy may seem to be a familiar cultural archetype, but my study also examines lesser-known, often marginalised aspects of the figure, with the intention of bringing to light new dimensions of tomboys and what they signify. Reaching beyond well-known stories, I have looked at tomboy representations outside the Eurocentric and North American versions, bringing in examples from the Caribbean, South America, Asia, and from within the postcolonial d

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Chen, Jou-An. "An exploration of nature and human development in young adult historical fantasy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/282878.

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Traditional historical writing focuses on the cause and effect of human action, assuming that it is the historian's responsibility to recount the ebbs and flows of human progress. In the process of laying hold of the past as a narrative of human action, historical writing has developed the tendency to marginalise nature and undermine its power to influence the historical narrative. My investigation explores the fantastic in historical fantasy as a means of resisting historical writing's anthropocentrism. Historical fantasy uses fantastical elements to create counterfactual and alternative hist

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Cook, Adele M. "Genre, gender and nation : ideological and intertextual representation in contemporary Arthurian fiction for children." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/583211.

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Within late twentieth and early twenty-first century children’s literature there is a significant interest amongst authors and readers for material which recreates the Arthurian myth. Many of these draw on medieval texts, and the canonical texts of the English tradition have been particularly influential. Yet within this intertextual discourse the influence of the Victorian works is noticeable. This thesis explores the relationship between contemporary children’s Arthuriana and the gendered and national ideologies of these earlier works. Using feminist critical discourse analysis, it discusses

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McKellar, Kyla. "Little house on Gold Mountain: A micro-analysis of racialization and colonialism in children's historical fiction." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6413.

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Grade three students in the Ontario education system learn about "pioneers" to satisfy the requirements of the Social Studies curriculum. Historical fiction can be used as an addition to the curriculum, and may offer children a way to learn about, and perhaps even identify with, Canada's past. The purpose of this study was to problematize two works of historical fiction that have been used in an Ontario classroom: Little house in the big woods (Wilder, 1932), and Ticket to Curlew (Lottridge, 1992). These stories present racialized, colonial depictions of European resettlers (i.e. "pioneers"),

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Nephew, Irene J. "An ethnographic content analysis of children's fiction picture books reflecting African American culture published 2001-2005." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1802.

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